Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Northridge Earthquake

First off, let me apologize for the way this map looks. My files got erased twice, I had to redo it once already, and I didn't feel like redoing the map again. Secondly, for some reason the map data wouldn't show up in the Layout View, so I couldn't make the map look neat and add things like a scale, a legend, etc. But there is still a lot of useful information in this map.

The blue, green, and yellow-green parts indicate where the earthquake hit in Northridge, CA and indicate the magnitude (yellow-green = magnitude 8, bright green spots = magnitude 9). The red lines represent the major highways or other major roads in Northridge. From this map, you can see that the areas hit by magnitudes of 8 and 9 included stretches of highway and also large portions of urban areas.

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